Mangolia

Finn felt his cheeks get hot when she grabbed his hand, but relief swept through him as his heart skipped a beat and he tried to hide a grin. He felt slightly disappointed when she let go of his hand, and he let it fall to his side, but he hid his disappointment and opened the door for her as they arrived at the coffee shop and entered the small building. As he sat at the small round-table across from her and thanked the waitress as he took the coffee and added some sugar and creamer, taking a small sip, he glanced up at her out of the corner of his eye, wishing she would say something. When silence continued to suffocate him, he cleared his throat and opened his mouth to say something when two men dressed in black with masks and hoods over their faces burst through the door and the screams of the civilians in the shop echoed in Finn's ears. Before Finn could react and even stand up fully out of his chair, the two men lunged for Chloe and grabbed her by her arms, one of them shoved a hand with a cloth over her mouth.
"Nooo!!!" Finn yelled, but as he went to try to get them off of her, a fire burning in his eyes, a third man came out of nowhere and he felt the impact of a hardened fist hit his jaw, sending him sprawled across the other side of the shop and leaving him dazed. He growled and tried to get up, but the third man placed a boot roughly on his chest to push him back down, knocking the air out of his lungs as the other two escaped with Chloe in tow. Finn yelled her name, but was quickly shut up with another blow to his jaw, splitting his lip. He blinked his eyes to clear his vision and glared up at the man above him with all the hatred he could muster. The man had a gun and was pointing the pistol at the terrified civilians, none of them daring to move. He smirked and removed his boot from Finn's chest and slipped out of the building to follow the other men. Finn lay on the ground, stunned, the attack had happened too fast for him to even think of a spell to weave that would help them, let alone to weave a spell, and once the shock dissipated, fury surged through his veins, but despite him knowing that they were too far gone for him to catch them now, he had to at least try. They would not get away with this. He would find them, and he would get Chloe back.

Nikita let out a chiming laugh as Grey discarded his shirt, the young woman tapping a well manicured finger against her soft pink lips. "You wish to fight here?" She looked around at the grand guild castle. "If you really insist," her eyes narrowed deviously as she snapped her fingers. Fire sparked from her fingertips, engulfing her hands in a loving embrace. The flames danced across her creamy skin, wrapping around her arms as she waved them, long fiery whips casting sparks as she wielded them skillfully. The fire elemental laughed, shaking her hair out of her face, the ends whispered with soft orange flames, dying down as she stopped moving her head. "Show me what you got, little droplet, impress me." Nikita challenged, posed and ready to intercept his imminent attack.

"If you insist." Grey murmured casually, his eyes darted for some sort of water source. The main pipes could serve as fine bending water. Grey felt his hands begin to form a water like pattern, his hands waving side to side near his hips. The nearby pipes began to shake and groan as they started to fall apart. Grey quickly dodged a large pipe as it fell nearly missing him by a hair. Soon water began to pour like rain, making Grey's grin appear. "You asked for it." he growled and soon began to wave his hands, the water soon flowed into his hands, making two long water-like knives appear from his hands. "Gahh!" he yelled and dove straight for Nikita's torso. He missed by an inch as she dodged his incoming attack, the flames began to boil the water he held and Grey yelped, not liking the hot water. He began the exersize once again, this time making it with the colder water. Grey dove again, striking a water knive across Nikita's arm, also getting his shoulder singed by the hot heat of the flames.

Wh-Where am I?! the thought came suddenly as Chloe awoke in a dungeon cell, her hands held together by a sticky web-like paste. Chloe wiggled and pulled against the hard web but it alas wouldn't budge. Chloe yelled out in frustration, she wanted badly to escape this mad torture. "It's no use struggling, that string of web is unbreakable and will not allow you to use magic power, ingenious isn't it?" a dark voice called from the opened cell door. Chloe blinked, squinting to the sudden blinding light. Chloe listened to the dark figures words, soon realizing it was right she couldn't feel the magic power from her keys any longer. "Let me go!" she growled, continuing to try and get the string to budge. "But we can't allow you to leave Miss, Chloe. Because we need you for a bigger plan. You know as well as we do that your 'Prince Finn' is going to try and rescue you but we have an assignment for him as well." the figure grinned and then sighed as Chloe continued to yell and pull against the web. The dark figure grinned and left not before waving a signal to the guards outside. "Enjoy your stay! Hope you find it electric!" he yelled and the gate closed. Chloe sensed an unnatural power change in the air and not 2 seconds after the door closed Chloe felt electric sparks fly across her tan skin, she was too late to realize and soon Chloe felt the electric vibes electrocute her, she screamed in pain, feeling as if her skin was on fire. The electric shock lasted for a few seconds then disappeared. Chloe felt her skin still dance with the electric current and she lay back slumped against the walls, what did these people have planned for her? She soon found her vision blurry as she went unconscious..

Nikita hissed in pain as the cold and sharp kiss of metal bit into her upper arm, a thin line of red blood making a trail to her elbow before falling to the floor in a few droplets. The water bender did not get away unharmed however, the fire elemental having wielded a whip close enough to burn his bare shoulder. Fool, you don't fight fire half naked. Nikita jumped backwards, crouching down low like a predatory cat, her sheer prowess showing as she sized up Grey. He had the upper hand in strength and size, but Nikita was fast and agile. The girl lunged forward first this time, a whip turning into a ball of flames covering her fist as she threw a punch at his face. She had underestimated his speed and her eyes went wide as she missed her mark, outstretched arm sliding past his jaw with half an inch to spare. Nikita corrected the mistake, curling her arm so she could elbow him, swiping a foot at his feet, hoping to knock him off balance.

As soon as the man slipped out the door and Finn had filled his lungs with air once more, he leaped to his feet and lurched towards the door before it had even closed completely, totally ditching the coffee and racing out into the street. Damn! That man was fast, was he on steroids or something? Finn couldn't see him anywhere, and the masked men seemed to having gotten lost in the crowd, but then he listened over the loud roar of multiple voices and heard some alarmed shouts and screams, and he followed the voices until he saw the last man disappear around a corner. Finn sped up into a run, sprinting after the man and trying to keep track of him through the sea of people blocking his way, although most of them jumped out of the way when they saw him approaching at a full-on run. He chased them for a few more blocks before running into someone, sending him sprawled on the road where he had to dodge the feet and legs of people getting hurriedly from place to place. Apologizing multiple times to the person he'd run into, he got to his feet and began his pursuit again, but he could no longer see the men who had kidnapped Chloe. It was as if they disappeared out of thin air, transported themselves in a split second, but that was impossible; not even the most advanced magician could manage to accomplish that feat, not unless they used dark, dark magic that anyone else would refuse to touch, or even think of using. Which made Finn wonder exactly who they were dealing with...he doubted they were that advanced, but he still thought they had the potential to be formidable foes.

Finn wandered the streets some time later, cursing under his breath as he had still not found the men or figured out where they were keeping Chloe hostage, although he had been asking directions from people for what seemed like hours. For the first half hour, he had asked some people if they had seen the masked, cloaked men he described to them, and most of them pointed him in a direction, but there had come a point when he had just about completely lost their trail, and he was tired and frustrated and angry at himself for having let them take her in the first place. He should have been faster, he should have thought of something. But he knew beating himself up about it now wasn't doing him any good, he just had to find her. If he could find the men who took her, he could find her, and then he could figure out a way to get her out of there. Picking up their trail again was the tricky part, and then figuring out how to sneak in wherever they had her without getting caught or captured himself. Eventually, when he could go no further without getting lost or losing their trail completely, he contacted Aldrik with their mind link, for the little lemur was much better at tracking than Finn was, with his keen eyesight and superb sense of smell, along with his ability to be a lookout from above. The little lemur was on his way now, flying to Finn's location; Finn wished he would hurry, he didn't want to think about where Chloe was at this moment or what they were doing to her as he stood around waiting. He had to get moving again, and in the right direction too.